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It's written by Joe Hill, son of Stephen King, and is probably my favorite ongoing comic right now. There have been two volumes collected in trade (Volume 1 - Welcome to Lovecraft and Volume 2 - Head Games) and it on the 5th issue of Volume 3 - Crown of Shadows. It a wonderful horror/mystery comic that has some of the finest characters and most interesting mythology I've come across. The art is also particularly amazing, both in drawing ability and page layouts.

The series is set on the fictional Prairie Rose Indian Reservation in modern-day South Dakota. Containing elements of the film noir and crime fiction genres, the story is concerned with organized crime as well as the culture and living conditions of the Oglala Lakota living on the reservation.

All-Star Batman & Robin 63/100 -- Jim Lee is such a great artist, but it's not my batman at all, and the story was just kind of flat. So disappointed.
All-Star Superman 91/100*
Flash: The return of Barry Allen 69/100
Superman: Red Son 86/100
Batman: Dark Victory 80/100
JLA: Justice for All 71/100
Naruto 17 61/100 - Did not continue series
King of Thorn 1 - 49/100 - Did not continue series
One Piece 1 - 57/100 Undecided, probably another DNC.

* Counts volumes 1 and 2. 1 was alright, but 2 was just stellar. I'm not a big Superman fan but this was the probably the best comic I've read in a long time.

Dont kno if the dam dirty link will work. But i had to get on here and give it up for the one and only The Walking Dead.. really excited about the next issue too, it is being dropped early this month, and Michonne is my favorite.

I wanted to go ahead and post a review on this months Walking Dead. Badness. Also, I think if this is your first time reading the comic.... please go to issue 1.
If you cant at least go back to 65 dammit or 19 or god knows, whatever i'd prefer everyone in the world just to start at one. means that much.

and starting to crack through Batman: Streets of Gotham, but it's hard with all the other ones on my plate. Plus, if I'm gonna read BSoG, I'll probably have to read Sirens of Gotham as well, considering they're both Paul Dini and seem to be connected. Oh well, I'm trying.

The art in Detective Comics -- now starring Batwoman -- is incredible, and some of my favorite of late.

Loving edgy Tim in Red Robin, not to mention his relationship with Ra's al Ghul in this.

Batman is good, but nothing special yet.

Grant Morrison hasn't disappointed with Batman and Robin so far, but the main question iswhat's gonna happen when Bruce comes back?
who will be who?

Damn, guess that means I'll have to be reading Return of Bruce Wayne soon, too. Oh, and Birds of Prey #1. And then maybe Batman confidential. And Batman/Superman. Wow, guess I better get back to it then.

I want to read Sandman but I feel like I should start from the beginning

You should, but since they've all been released chronologically in graphic novel form ([url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandman_%28Vertigo%29#Collections[/url]) and recently as a retouched anthology, they're not hard to find. I've only read the first three collections so far, but there's some really good stuff in there (my favorite's [i]The Doll's House[/i], notably all things dealing with the "cereal" convention).

But the best graphic novel of all time? I'll have to agree with the critics on this one: Alan Moore's [i]Watchmen[/i]. Anything by Moore is unarguably fantastic, and [i]Watchmen[/i] is generally considered to be his magnum opus. [i]V for Vendetta[/i] is also amazing (and it may ruin the movie forever, it's that much better). His one-shot story of The Joker's origins, [i]The Killing Joke[/i], is a brilliant and twisted treat for Batman fans. During his run on [i]The Swamp Thing[/i] (issues 20 through 64) he created the character of John Constantine, which was later spun off into the ongoing [i]Hellblazer[/i] series - and, of course, the film starring Keanu Reeves.

So, basically, Alan Moore created the universe and I want to have his babies. But you should all read [i]Watchmen[/i], anyway.

I've read all of those, and they're all fantastic. And yeah, it ruined the movie if V for me. I used to like the movie, now whenever I'm skimming through my DVDs looking for something to watch and that comes up, I just go right over it.
As for stuff to read: Anything by Alan Moore or Warren Ellis.
The Umbrella Academy by Gerard Way and Gabriel Ba: one of the best current comics out there. It's really unique, and the writing is top-knotch along with the art. Worth the read.
The Hellblazer series.
Batman: Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth. Maybe one of my favorite graphic novels. I put it up there with Watchmen.
The Sandman series by Gaiman, it's fantastic.
Any Deadpool comics.

There was no comic book store in the town I grew up in. Now I feel like I'm too old to start reading comics and there's way to much to catch up on, but I know I've missed out. This saddens me :(

Actually..I have about four 'Sonic the Comic' comics. But that's all I could ever acquire, haha.

Bah! It's never too late! Especially nowadays, where most bookstores have an entire section for graphic novel collections. Plus it's a lot cheaper buying them in a collection and you get the whole storyline all in one sitting.

despite the Umbrella Academy pretty much being a Royal Tenenbaums starring superheroes -- Kraken especially being a Batman clone -- I enjoyed it way more than I wanted to. The Dallas story arc especially.

I'm still hacking through all the B-Man series, with the exception of Batman Confidential. Just not enough time.

In the middle of the JLA/Avengers cross-over book. It's better than I expected.

Deadpool's series is funny, but I miss the dynamic of his team-up with Cable.

Time to jump into X-Necrosha pretty soon.
Oh, and Blackest Night.
Oh, and then Brightest Day because of that.

Way to go Avengers mega-film. No Ed Norton as Hulk. No Tobes for Spidey. A pretty hush-named Thor. And the same actor playing Captain America AND Human Torch. Am I still gonna watch this? Yeah, probably.

Also, I'll trade someone a good chunk of change for a DC Universe Sinestro in Yellow.

There's a lot more in there too.

Oh, I thought Superman for All Seasons was fantastic, even though I still think Sale's style is kind of meh.

What else you recommend Mckay? I'm not so huge on the super heroes thing, unless it's done like Brubaker or Moore have done. I'm really into the crime and noir graphic novels. So far Brubaker is my favorite by far.

What else you recommend Mckay? I'm not so huge on the super heroes thing, unless it's done like Brubaker or Moore have done. I'm really into the crime and noir graphic novels. So far Brubaker is my favorite by far.

I only made it up to 16 in the Walking Dead series so far, but I am floored!
The writing is pretty simplistic but it creates these characters that are so compelling. and the pacing is top-notch. it seems like every single issue leaves you on that perfect cliffhanger spot.
The only complaint I got about it is the artwork. this Adlard guy is atrocious for that series. every single character looks exactly the same. the only way you can tell them apart is, primarily what they're saying, then by separating them by man/woman, white skin/black skin, light hair dark hair. and I guess alive/dead.

It looks like he's still doing the artwork after 60+ issues, so I'm hoping that it continually improves. right now, this is all stuff drawn over 6 years ago.

I can't believe I've left it this long to read From Hell. I should be punished or something for ignoring this gem for so long. Yes, I've seen the film and yes, it's rubbish. But... wow. I only heard someone mention it on the boards the other day (I read the post the other day but I do explore old threads).

Sin City is one of my favorites.
I love the batmans. Year One, Killing Joke and Dark Knight Returns are all great. Im in love with Frank Miller. Currently Im reading Kingdom Come. So far extremely premise. I want to get Y's and Preacher. Also Kick ass and Wanted are suppose to be really good.

Been absolutely enthralled with Weapon Brown the past couple days.http://www.whatisdeepfried.com/2008/04/07/weapon-brown-1/
This thing is all the insanity and fun that made Scud the Disposable Assassin so great and all the encyclopediac knowledge of it's own history that makes League of Extraordinary Gentlemen so great.
To take all the different styles from so many comic strips and mesh them together makes the art just flat out amazing.
The dialogue, although extremely mature, really reflects (or sometimes for the sake of comedy, ironically distorts) the characters if they were cast in this world.
The story is full of action and hilarity but finds time for slow-burns to create tension and reflection.
Far and away the greatest webcomic that has been or will ever be produced!

I second (or third, fourth, or seventeenth) the recommendations for Y: The Last Man, Transmetropolitan, Preacher, and The Walking Dead.

Wildcats 3.0 remains my favorite. Taking the blatant X-Men knock-offs the original WildC.A.T.s were and forcing them to evolve in a complicated, real world setting. It uses the corporation that always funded their spandex-clad exploits as its protagonist. There's still action, gunfights, violence, but the focus is about saving the world in a practical, bloodless way: the free market. Of course, driving people out of business with their primary product - a battery that never dies - makes them plenty of enemies. The only downside to the series is its reliance on knowledge of prior events and relationships from the first two series. Still rewarding if you jump in at 3.0, but that evolution I mentioned is what makes the series more.

Blade of the Immortal actually owns half a shelf in my regular book case. Beautiful line work, exhaustively detailed and good storytelling, despite the fact that it's a Japanese comic that has its panels "cut up" and rearranged for the American left-to-right. A "criminal" kills a hundred men and is made immortal. He can't die until he's killed 1,000 evil men, a task he attempts while helping a teenage girl achieve revenge against her parents' killers. He is a master swordsmen, but his immortality - allowing him to lose limbs and reattach them, healing ordinarily fatal wounds - comes at the cost of his abilities. His body repairs, his skill erodes, making his final real and actual death harder to achieve.

My two cents.

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